New OpenSim release includes mesh, other improvements

Several major OpenSim features, including mesh, which were previously available only in experimental releases of OpenSim are now part of the standard OpenSim release, numbered 0.7.2.

Justin Clark-Casey

“Despite having a minor point release number, it actually contains a very large number of features and fixes,” said OpenSim core developer Justin Clark-Casey in an announcement Saturday.

OpenSim now includes support for mesh upload, a feature which can be accessed by using Second Life viewer 3, hypergrid support for friends, instant messages, and landmarks, non-player characters, prim and agent limits on regions, as well as a number of bug fixes (see Release Notes for full list).

OpenSim actually had support for Second Life-compatible mesh on the day after Second Life first released it for beta testers. A non-compatible type of mesh, modrex, has been available from the RealXtend project for more than two years.

Maria Korolov is editor and publisher of Hypergrid Business. She has been a journalist for more than twenty years and has worked for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, and Computerworld and has reported from over a dozen countries, including Russia and China.